Calls for papers

 

International Journal of Agile Systems and Management

 

TE2024: Special Issue on: "Transdisciplinary Engineering for Agility in Sustainable Stakeholder Value Creation"

Guest Editors:
Prof. Federico Trigos, EGADE Business School Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico
Dr. Pisut Koomsap, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Dr. Susan Lattanzio, University of Bath, UK
Prof. Margherita Peruzzini, University of Bologna, Italy

In today's dynamic business environment organisations are constantly challenged to respond swiftly to emerging complex problems that transcend individual disciplines. To achieve sustainable solutions, a transdisciplinary approach is essential. This involves leveraging rapidly advancing technology whilst engaging with stakeholders across the value chain to ensure that their needs and expectations have been considered.

The goal of this special issue is to foster and advance high-quality research in transdisciplinary engineering, with the aim of discovering sustainable solutions for complex problems and enriching stakeholder value creation. This initiative seeks to cultivate a community of scholars from diverse fields, including project management, innovation management, new product development, entrepreneurship, software engineering, design, and engineering education.

Studies utilising any of the whole spectra of empirical approaches, both qualitative and quantitative, in either field or laboratory settings are of interest to us. We also value theoretical pluralism. All articles are expected to make a significant practical and theoretical contribution.

The Guest Editors will be inviting substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the 31st International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering (TE2024), for review and potential publication, but are also inviting other experts to submit articles for this call.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

Smart Operations for Value Chain Management

• Supply chain management
• Smart factory
• Product service systems
• Collaborative manufacturing
• Digital manufacturing
• Additive manufacturing
• Digital twin
• Internet of Things
• Cyber-physical systems

Critical Issues in Transdisciplinary Engineering

• Gender and diversity in engineering teams
• Global north vs south
• Engineering policy and practice in the public sector
• Engineering in global crises

Engineering Education

• Problem-based learning and project-based learning in engineering
• Digital and open learning for engineering
• Competency development and assessment
• Professional education and certification
• University business cooperation

Transdisciplinary Approaches to

• Decision support tools and methods
• Value engineering
• Risk management
• Knowledge management and knowledge engineering

Team Working

• Managing cultural and disciplinary differences
• Methods for transdisciplinary teamwork
• Transdisciplinary team performance measurement

Theoretical Contributions

• Engineering thinking and practice
• Complex sociotechnical systems

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our Submitting articles page.

Important Dates

Manuscripts due by: 31 December, 2024